Coastals WEATHERPAK® weather stations
feed weather data every 30 seconds directly into ALOHA, which is a computer program used
to predict how a hazardous gas cloud might disperse in the atmosphere after an accidental
chemical release. ALOHA is a tool used for response, planning, training, and academic
purposes. It can predict rates of chemical release from broken gas pipes, leaking tanks,
and evaporating puddles. ALOHA is also able to model the dispersion of both
neutrally-buoyant and heavier-than-air gases. It is distributed worldwide to thousands of
users in government and industry. Coastal Environmental Systems manufactures both the
WEATHERPAK® and the C-5 SAM™ weather
stations designed to work with ALOHA.

This link brings
you to the NSF Division of Atmospheric Sciences in Arlington, Virginia where a Coastal
Environmental Systems weather station is being used to provide nearreal-time
weather data on temperature, humidity, pressure, rain accumulation, wind speed, direction
and peak gust speed. Data is represented in text and graphical form and is updated every 5
minutes. Historical data can also be viewed.

The system was designed and installed by the Atmospheric Technology Division of NCAR in
Boulder, Colorado. The organization is funded by the NSF.

This site takes you to one of NCAR's near real-time weather
data labs, located in Boulder, CO. You can view current weather
or download / view past data.

The Foothills Lab is part of the Research Data Program (RDP) within the Atmospheric
Technology Division (ATD) of NCAR. A Coastal weather station is being used to
collect all of the meteorological information. Funding comes from the
National Science Foundation.

Some NCAR research is also carried out for NASA, NOAA, DOE, EPA, and the FAA.

This link
takes you to the NWS Radiosonde (RSOIS) Replacement Program site. (A radiosonde is a
balloon-carried instrument package used to measure a complete atmospheric profile of the
weather).

The NWS maintains a network of 102 radiosonde systems, which are the primary source of
upper-air data, and the only source for a complete sounding of the atmosphere from the
surface to +30 kilometers.

Coastal was chosen to provide the Surface Observing Systems (Weather Stations) that
will be located adjacent to the balloon launching area for ground calibration comparisons
with the balloon-launched instrument package. This will improve data availability and
accuracy for temperature, humidity, pressure, and wind measurements.

Take a look at the most advanced,
state-of-the-art web site of its kind in the World. This site takes you to the TNRCC's real-time
air quality data network for the State of Texas.

Real-time air pollution data, combined with current weather patterns, gives you an
incredible visual / graphic picture of where pollutants are and where they are headed.
Graphs, text, weather maps and more are all available at this site!

Data for the network is collected from TNRCC air monitoring sites, local agencies, and
private monitoring networks which are utilizing Coastal's ZENO® 3200 data
acquisition system.

This
site links you to USF's real-time Coastal Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System
(COMPS) data for West Florida.

The network is used to monitor sea conditions that will assist in deterring Manatee
deaths (related to red tide occurrences), more accurately predict hurricanes and their
effects, better forecast coastal flooding due to storms, and assist in calibrating
satellites (ground truthing) over the Gulf of Mexico (US Navy project).

The system is jointly supported by NOAA, the State of Florida, the Department of
Environmental Protection, the National Weather Service, and others.

To see real-time data for a particular COMPS station utilizing Coastal
Environmental instrumentation, click on: